Robert Breer Movies

An anarchic collage of invention, Rubber Cement uses rotoscoped family footage together with found objects to create an almost free-form animation...

An experiment in associative spontaneity.

Robert Breer animation from 1969. 16mm, color, silent, using spray paint & stencils.

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

Short hand drawn representation of a cat

While birds can be heard singing a shrill song, lines crisscross wildly as if they aimed to form shapes. Their efforts seem hopeless until the very...

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. Alternate version.

Utilising an apparently new-found obsession with the colour red and reinvigorating some of the circular imagery of A Man and His Dog Out for Air and...

A record, of sorts, of the birth and death of Tinguely’s famous auto-destructive sculpture. Filmed on the spot at MoMA, this film also exploits...

Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film...

An endless loop of film composed entirely of disparate images. Through repetition, certain images isolate themselves from the flow reforming the...

An animated fable centered around a backyard pond shown intermittently in live-action scenes.

A number of simple mechanical objects spiral out of a spray-paint nebula then implode into pure pattern and line.

Robert Breer’s What Goes Up... continues his “kitchen sink” approach of including as many different kinds of things as possible....

Different stages of paintings made with ink. The ink fuses, spreads.

Shot in 1974, Colliding was made as a portrait of sculptor/animator Robert Breer.

Sparkill Ave! combines still photos of Breer's home and environs with hand-drawn images of ordinary objects and scenes.

Cut-outs of war machines and the figure of Napoleon – contributors to an anti-war theme – encounter abstract shapes, line drawings,...

Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film...